Definition of Arabize in English:

verb

The Arab invasion in the 7th century brought with it many Arab soldiers who settled there and who slowly Arabized the country and converted most of its inhabitants to Islam.

In its street forms, rai operates in France to keep a community of former North African residents connected; in Algeria it operated for a time as a Berber nationalist medium against the Islamicizing, Arabizing currents.

Most Arabs in that area had been settled there in an attempt to Arabize the north.

Derivatives

Arabization

It also raises the question of the status of Arabic: Arabization is advocated by the authors of the Report, but without exposing its difficulties nor its benefits.

The revivification of Palestinian identity has become a part of Palestinian Christian consciousness: ‘The Arabization of the Christian churches, which began with their leaders, has spread to include theology and education.’

Laws in the 1990s required the Arabization of secondary school and higher education, and made Arabic the only legal language in government and politics.